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Re: mastaflash post# 103220

Thursday, 03/06/2008 8:17:37 PM

Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:17:37 PM

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In normal circumstances, they do cover the shares they've sold naked short or naked long.

What IS odd in this case is that, as far as I can recall, no really large number of fails was reported, and the brokerages considered the trades settled.
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